Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
OAS Hosts Seminar on “Connectivity and Freedom of Expression in the Americas”
September 27, 2017
Experts, academics and authorities on connectivity and freedom of expression in the Americas will meet tomorrow at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC to discuss and share experiences about optimal regulatory policies to create a universal telecommunication connectivity environment that helps strengthen the exercise of freedom of expression and of the press in the region.
The event will be inaugurated by the OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, and it will feature presentations by
The Adjunct Chair of the Board of OSIPTEL and Adjunct Chair of CCP.I. of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), Sergio Cifuentes;
Director General, The Competitive Intelligence Unit, Ernesto Piedras;
Former President of Costa Rica and Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Ibero-American Telecommunications Organization (OTI), Laura Chinchilla;
Specialist attorney in electoral issues, freedom of expression, and telecommunications, Rogelio Carbajal;
Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, Ernesto Calvo;
The Senior Advocate of the OAS Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Ona Flores;
Former Colombian Vice-Minister of ICT’s and President of the Solidarity with Colombia Foundation, María Carolina Hoyos Turbay;
Director of Regulatory Unit of Communications Services of Uruguay, Nicolás Cendoya
Executive Director of the Ecuadorian Business Committee and Executive President of the Association of Private Self-funded Universities, Roberto Aspiazu
The event will be closed by the Executive Secretary of CITEL, Óscar León, and the Secretary for Strengthening Democracy of the OAS, Francisco Guerrero.
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